Stocks took a stomach-turning dive on Monday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 1,000 points in a matter of seconds.
Sorry everybody, my bad. Without thinking, I lowered my 401K contribution by 3%. I didn't take the time to consider the effect my actions would have on the global stock market.
I'll put it back next month! Promise!
In a little-noticed filing before an Oregon federal judge, the US Justice Department and the FBI conceded that stopping US and other citizens from travelling on airplanes is a matter of “predictive assessments about potential threats”, the government asserted in May.
“By its very nature, identifying individuals who ‘may be a threat to civil aviation or national security’ is a predictive judgment intended to prevent future acts of terrorism in an uncertain context,” Justice Department officials Benjamin C Mizer and Anthony J Coppolino told the court on 28 May.
“Judgments concerning such potential threats to aviation and national security call upon the unique prerogatives of the Executive in assessing such threats.”
It is believed to be the government’s most direct acknowledgement to date that people are not allowed to fly because of what the government believes they might do and not what they have already done.
The shrine that was attacked in Bangkok is directly in front of the Bangkok Grand Hyatt hotel. When we were in Thailand last fall, two of our party of six stayed there. 
In other words... I've been to that spot. What a strange feeling. I have no doubt that it's much better to have my 'strange feeling' than to have whatever the people directly affected by that explosion are going through, however.
Attention: there is no tilde in "habanero" So don't pronounce it "ha-ban-yerro". That is a hyperforeignism.
The pepper's name means "Of Havana" (v and b being interchangeable here), and there is no tilde in "Havana".
Ha-ban-erro.
It was the best of the day before I get a follow back on my way home from work to be the first half of the day before I get a follow back on my way home from work to be the first half of the first half was the best of the best way home from work ...
I'm at a time when you are so much for a long way in hell of the first place I have no clue who I was the only way you want a relationship is not an easy to play the piano is not an easy to play the piano is not the best ...
The best thing to say it was the first half of the first half was the best thing to say it is a good time with the first half of the day I have a great way of life and the best of luck with the first half of the first half and the best thing ...
I'm at a time when you are not going anywhere near me I was a little too hard and fast food place for me I was a little too hard and fast food place for me I have no clue who I want you in my room for a long way in hell of the best way for ....
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Turn on the autocomplete bar on your iPhone, pick a spot and start pushing until you've seen enough of "the best".
Let's listen to Robert Fripp (with Daryl Hall on vocals, Phil Collins on Drums and Tony Levin on bass) !
You're welcome.
This is from Fripp's 1979 album, "Exposure". In 1981, this song would be reworked into King Crimson's "Matte Kudasai".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX6R9xtCnVE
With the General Assembly now a month past a budget deadline, North Carolina Budget Director Lee Roberts is calling for state agencies to prepare for a government shutdown.
It’s never happened before and Roberts said Thursday it’s extremely unlikely, but in a memo to state agencies obtained by WNCN News, he’s asking them to prepare to cut back to providing only essential services.
“It’s now been five months. Our fiscal year ended,” Roberts said. “We’re one of only five states where the legislature has not completed its budget for the year.”
Browsin for new music. Have to keep reminding myself that just because I missed it at the time, stuff that came out in 2005 isn't new, it's old.
The waters in Rio de Janeiro, host of the 2016 Summer Olympics, are teeming with viruses and bacteria from human feces, an investigation by the Associated Press has found.
In some tests, the levels of contamination are up to 1.7 million times what would be considered hazardous on a California beach, according to the AP analysis, which is the first independent testing for both viruses and bacteria at Olympic sites. Brazilian officials and the International Olympic Committee only test for bacteria.
Fevers and stomach problems have already beleaguered some athletes training in Rio, the AP reported. Because most sewage is not treated in Brazil, dangerous waste freely makes its way to bodies of water where Olympians will swim and boat.
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An American expert in waterborne viruses, Kristina Mena, said that the levels found in the waters mean someone would have a 99 percent chance of infection from ingesting a mere three teaspoons of water.
I'd probably skip it.
"Here lies George Johnson, Hanged by mistake, 1882.
He was right, we was wrong, but we strung him up and now he's gone."